Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva Performance Compared

Last week we released Phoronix Test Suite 1.0
and one of the article requests we received as a result was to do a side-by-side
comparison between the popular desktop Linux distributions. Ask and you shall
receive. Today we have up 28 test results from Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora 9, and Mandriva
2008.1.

All the settings within each of the three Linux distributions
were left at their defaults as well as using the stock package selections. Ubuntu
8.04 uses the Linux
2.6.24 kernel, X
Server 1.4.0.90, and GCC 4.2.3. Mandriva 2008.1 is similar to Ubuntu 8.04
with its use of the Linux 2.6.24 kernel, X Server 1.4.0.90, and GCC 4.2.3. Fedora
9 is the most bleeding-edge of the three distributions and it ships with the Linux
2.6.25 kernel, X
Server 1.4.99.901, and GCC
4.3.0.

If you wish to benchmark your system using the same set of tests
we had used in this article, run phoronix-test-suite benchmark michael-5257-14463-7069.
It's as easy as that! On the following pages are the results.